From BoingBoing
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled […] that rightsholders must consider fair use before issuing takedowns. The court found that people whose creations were censored through DMCA abuse could sue the companies that filed the censorship demands, even if they couldn’t show monetary damages from the censorship.
http://boingboing.net/2015/09/14/eff-scores-a-giant-victory-for.html